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GitHub webhooks allow you to easily generate notifications whenever certain actions occur. One built-in webhook is Amazon Simple Notification Service (SNS), which can transmit these messages to a variety of endpoints…including AWS Lambda, which means you can now easily run JavaScript code in response to something happening in a GitHub repository. In this post we’ll make a simple issue responder bot using a Lambda function, but you could use the same technique to trigger deployments or other actions.